Patents by Inventor Jerry Eugene Skelton

Jerry Eugene Skelton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus for starting moving items into a processing machine
    Patent number: 8684293
    Abstract: Apparatus, system and methods of using the apparatus and system to manipulate fiber(s) into a chopper, winder or other fiber(s) processing equipment. By using the apparatus the operator(s) are freed up for pressing duties that will increase productivity and also create a safer workplace. The apparatus supports and constrains slowly or rapidly running fiber(s) and moves through a sequence of movements that reposition the fiber(s) into a path that places the running fiber(s) in the proper location for processing in the chopper, winder or other processing equipment and also places the running fiber(s) into a desired groove or valley on a separator roll or guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Michael David Folk, Brian Samuel Hamby, Jerry Eugene Skelton, Randall Clark Bascom
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STARTING MOVING ITEMS INTO A PROCESSING MACHINE
    Publication number: 20120305687
    Abstract: Apparatus, system and methods of using the apparatus and system to manipulate fiber(s) into a chopper, winder or other fiber(s) processing equipment. By using the apparatus the operator(s) are freed up for pressing duties that will increase productivity and also create a safer workplace. The apparatus supports and constrains slowly or rapidly running fiber(s) and moves through a sequence of movements that reposition the fiber(s) into a path that places the running fiber(s) in the proper location for processing in the chopper, winder or other processing equipment and also places the running fiber(s) into a desired groove or valley on a separator roll or guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Michael David Folk, Brian Samuel Hamby, Jerry Eugene Skelton, Randall Clark Bascom